Weekly Challenge Discussion Thread

[Fuzzi0n]

I'm always surprised how much impact the car choice has on the racing outcome, even in races with PP limit. I've got around 40 cars with exactly 700pp or very close to that in my garage but every single one drives differently.

For example, with my tuned KTM I struggled to become P2 in Autopolis, with Gallo on P1 having a leap of 10 secs, while using the de-tuned Porsche 962 in the same race easily resulted in becoming P1 with a leap of over 1 minute.

You do have to consider that the AI pace does change dramatically and seemingly at random between races. On top of that you have the issues with the PP system where cars can be multiple seconds apart at the same PP level, even worse given it doesn't take fuel/tyre use into account for those races. I agree with your example, seems that it has the biggest problems when you drop high downforce cars down to the lowest PP they can be. Seems to also be rather track specific, as an example 800 PP Gr.2 cars will always be way faster than a road car at that level until you race at a track with long straights where they can use all the extra straight line speed. I do like these races because you can come up with some very unique entries which can be a lot of fun.

 

[Meltac]

You do have to consider that the AI pace does change dramatically and seemingly at random between races. On top of that you have the issues with the PP system where cars can be multiple seconds apart at the same PP level, even worse given it doesn't take fuel/tyre use into account for those races. I agree with your example, seems that it has the biggest problems when you drop high downforce cars down to the lowest PP they can be. Seems to also be rather track specific, as an example 800 PP Gr.2 cars will always be way faster than a road car at that level until you race at a track with long straights where they can use all the extra straight line speed. I do like these races because you can come up with some very unique entries which can be a lot of fun.

Yeah, you're right.

I also like these races and the fact that winning is not alone the result of a driving challenge but also of an "engineering challenge", ie. try different cars and setups until it works out, and adjusting the car to your personal driving flavor and skills.

e.g. I hate understeering but can handle oversteering pretty well (especially since it has become less dramatic with one of the last game updates), so I can tune alike. Also you have the choice between high max speed vs. better cornering etc.

The only thing is, it feels a bit like cheating when using cars like the Porsche 962 which has high speed, good cornering and excellent fuel efficiency at the same time, so that you just can easily overtake the AI while pitting and get a leap of over one minute at the end of the race

 

[Famine]

 

[2cam16]

Great,going to need a Superfast set-up. Pass on the Fuji Gr.1 which I have yet to complete.